{"id":15015,"date":"2011-09-26T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=15015"},"modified":"2012-05-07T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T18:17:46","slug":"yo-ho-ho-my-buccaneers-birthday-by-loralee-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/yo-ho-ho-my-buccaneers-birthday-by-loralee-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo Ho Ho My Buccaneer’s Birthday by Loralee Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>A few weeks back, we held my dear Ethan’s 5th Birthday party. \u00a0 We waited for the school year to begin, in order for all Ethan’s swashbuckling scallywags to attend. \u00a0Since he had waited all summer, I knew we had to have a pirate party to remember. \u00a0I’ll be honest, five years ago when I found out for sure that my first little child would be a boy – I worried endlessly about becoming a mother of the male species. \u00a0I came from a family of all girls and I love sparkles and shopping more than most people love their own children. \u00a0The whole G.I. Joe and Transformers bit scared me. \u00a0I didn’t know if I could tap into the little boy\u00a0psych. \u00a0But now two little boys, one princess, and a lot of prayer later – I do understand one key to raising little boys…or at least a small portion of it. \u00a0Give your little boys adventure and make them your hero. <\/strong><\/em>When my little boys feel like \u00a0heroes and are knee-deep in adventure – that’s when they are the most content and I can’t wipe the smile off their faces.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s what I tried to do for Ethan’s birthday. \u00a0I wanted him to be transported into a land of adventure where all him and his little friends couldn’t be anything but five year old heroes. \u00a0 Here a peek into the party! \u00a0Check out the bottom of the post for details and links to the event.
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1) The magnificent imagineer and owner of Rhino Design Lab, John Christensen, \u00a0designed, created, and built Ethan’s Pirate Ship Playhouse for me!\u00a0 He does a ton of work for me\u00a0 and my parties and I am never happier than when working with Rhino Design.\u00a0 You can contact him at johnchristensen@gmail.com<\/a> or through his newly opened Etsy shop Rhino Design Lab here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2) As you probably know from my other parties, I am huge fan of pre-prepared servings at children’s parties. \u00a0\ufeffFor Ethan’s lunch I served\u00a0his favorite, Peanut Butter and Honey sandwiches in prepackaged white bags with\u00a0a label.\u00a0 Along with Root Beer with personalized labels, potato chips with little stickers on them saying “Ye Ole Salted Taters” and a mini\u00a0treasure\u00a0box of\u00a0tiny donuts with a little tag that said ” ‘Do-nut’ eat the buried treasure.”\u00a0\u00a0 Having\u00a0 a place setting for each child made lunch simple – which I love.<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0I created a “Davy Jones’ Locker” area where all the kids\u00a0could\u00a0step in to become a true pirate!\u00a0 We had pirate scarves, fake tattoos,\u00a0eye patches, pirate\u00a0(water) pistols, and gold earrings.\u00a0\u00a0I also drew fake mustaches and beards on all the kids with black eyeliner pencils. The kids loved getting all decked out for the party.<\/p>\n

4) Games.\u00a0 \u00a0Of course, we had a treasure hunt!\u00a0\u00a0 A must at all pirate parties. I also \u00a0purchased round black water balloons and the kids loved playing toss the canon ball.\u00a0 This was fun because they didn’t get soaking wet in the early-fall weather, but still got a little splash which\u00a0they enjoyed.\u00a0\u00a0 My brother-in-law dressed up like a pirate and basically stole the show with the kids.\u00a0 They played “Tug-a-war with the Pirate” using a huge long hemp rope and also played “Follow The Pirate”.\u00a0 Very few children left without a photo with “Captain No Beard.”<\/p>\n

5) For placemats, I created 11X17 antiqued maps for each setting.\u00a0 The kids then used these to find the hidden treasure!\u00a0 I will be offering these in the shop shortly – as well as the other paper goods!\u00a0\u00a0 I “forced”\u00a0 Mr. Lewis to antique all the signs, placemats, and posters.\u00a0 I put “forced” in quotations because is it just me or does it take very little coaxing for husband’s to do any\u00a0honey-do list items\u00a0that entail a blow torch?<\/p>\n

6) For dessert, we had root beer floats for all the kids.\u00a0 The buccaneers looked adorable toting around their huge mugs with root beer mustaches saying “Arrrgh!!” continually.\u00a0 I now highly recommend root beer floats for every pirate party!<\/p>\n

7) My best friend forever, Alison Daines, make all the tiny mini\u00a0doughnuts for the buccaneer’s lunch.\u00a0 A special thank you to her!<\/p>\n

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